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Beethoven’s “Women” at the Library Society
FRESH FROM THEIR PERFORMANCE in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, the Actors’ Theatre of South Carolina and Chamber Music Charleston will present “Beethoven: His Women and His Music” at the Charleston Library Society, Thursday November 3 at 7:00 P.M. This innovative musical drama combines the live classical music of Beethoven’s Archduke Piano Trio with... Read »
A Musical Gallery
IT’S ONE THING to listen to chamber music in a bleak, bare-walled auditorium. It’s quite another to soak in the sounds as you sit inside an art gallery where wine and hors d’ouevres await. That’s at least four things you have to look forward to this weekend when Chamber Music Charleston presents another signature... Read »
Chamber Charm & Excitement at Memminger
THE MUSICIANS of Chamber Music Charleston celebrated their fifth anniversary in front of a happy sellout crowd (including LOTS of young people) Saturday evening at Memminger auditorium. CMC is known primarily for gracing Charleston’s historic private homes and churches with their music, but they’ve expanded their activities to include their Mozart in the South... Read »
No Longer a Secret
AS THE CLASSICAL MUSIC options in Charleston keep growing, there is one chamber music ensemble that, although it has stayed very busy, has remained somewhat of a secret in town—probably because it does so many private-home concerts on Kiawah, Seabrook, and Edisto, as well as downtown, on Daniel Island, and in Summerville. Well, the... Read »
Nurturing the Arts
SHE KEEPS DOING IT. She keeps encouraging kids to enjoy and appreciate classical music. And they love it. They also packed the Dock Street Theatre a few days before Christmas to hear it. Selections, that is, of Christmas favorites performed by the Chamber Music Charleston trio of Nonoko Okada (violin), Regina Helcher Yost (flute),... Read »
Real Musical Theatre
SILENCE, tears, integrity, and music. These are what remain vivid in my mind nearly two weeks after seeing The Gift of the Magi at the Dock Street Theatre. Ostensibly, it was a co-production of the American author O. Henry’s play put on by Actors’ Theatre of South Carolina and Chamber Music Charleston. But at... Read »
The Art of Giving
IMAGINE SEEING O. Henry, the twentieth-century raconteur and humorist, live on stage in Charleston. Well, it’s happening December 22 and 23 at the Dock Street Theatre where O. Henry himself will recount The Gift of The Magi, his touching Christmas story about the true nature of love and giving. On one end of the... Read »
A Delicious Interlude
AN INTERMEZZO is a musical interlude, which is what we got last Saturday afternoon during 45 precious minutes of string music (as a taste of the Intermezzo Concert Series by Chamber Music Charleston). Violist Jill King set the tone for this free performance with her heartfelt opening to Jay Unger’s “Ashokan Farewell”—the music that... Read »
Finale on the Lawn
SUNDAY’S THREAT OF RAIN never materialized—at least not at the idyllic grounds of Middleton Place. So the Mozart in the South Festival went ahead with its planned open-air grand finale concert as the evening sun slowly sank behind the western tree line into dusk and darkness, taking some of the afternoon’s oppressive heat with... Read »
A Smashing Start
THE SECOND ANNUAL Mozart in the South (MITS) Festival, organized and staged by Chamber Music Charleston, got off to a smashing start Thursday evening with an ambitious and varied chamber program at St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church. With its blend of chamber and orchestral music, MITS is an important feature of musical life in the... Read »
